Routing Differnet Subnets over 2 x WAN Links

Hi,

Just wondered if anyone can assist with this as it's a urgent request from our customer.

Basically, we have a site with 2 x 34mb WAN links. The links work as traditional Primary / Backup so all traffic (e.g. 192.168.0.0) is routed in/out of the Primary link under normal operation. Should the Primary fail them all traffic routes over the Backup link.

Over the last few weeks Primary 34mb circuit has become overloaded so the customer has asked us to route just the IPT subnets over the backup link.

We use EIGRP on the LAN side and redistribute into BGP on the WAN side.

So, now the customer wants us to route juts the IPT subnet 10.2.0.0 in/out over the Backup link while all 192.168.0.0 traffic continues to use the Primary cirucit . But should the Backup link fail we would need the IPT subnet to route back via the Primary link. Hope that makes sense.

Does anyone know the best way to achieve this.?

We use the following commands under EIGRP / BGP to route all traffic in/out over the Primary link. I've changed the ip addresses but hopefully you get the drift.

Thanks for any help in advance.

John

interface GigabitEthernet0

bandwidth 34000

!

interface GigabitEthernet0.16

description WAN Primary

ip address 192.168.1.1. 255.255.255.0

router eigrp 8001

network 192.168.0.0

no auto-summary

timers active-time 10

redistribute bgp 49 route-map bgp-eigrp

!

router bgp 49

redistribute eigrp 8001 route-map eigrp-bgp

neighbor x.x.x.x remote-as 6xxx

neighbor x.x.x.x default-originate

neighbor x.x.x.x route-map set-localpref-pri in

neighbor x.x.x.x route-map set-med-pri out

maximum-paths 2

no auto-summary

route-map bgp-eigrp deny 10

description block any prev bgp-eigrp redistr routes

match tag 999

!

route-map bgp-eigrp permit 30

description set eigrp metric and set tag

set metric 34000 100 255 1 1500

set tag 999

!

route-map eigrp-bgp deny 10

description block any prev bgp-eigrp redistr routes

match tag 999

!

route-map eigrp-bgp permit 20

description permit all other routes learned via EIGRP

set metric 100

!

route-map set-med-pri permit 10

description set bgp med to influence inbound routing. Lower is better

set metric 100

!

route-map set-locafpref-pri permit 10

description set bgp local pref to influence outbound routing. higher is better

Re: Routing Differnet Subnets over 2 x WAN Links

John

Apologies for the lack of detail, i'm on a bit of a tight schedule this afternoon so i'll have to be brief :-)

This link provides an example of using PBR with the "set ip next-hop verify-availability" which allows you to check if the next hop is up before using PBR. If it isn't up then the normal routing table will be used ie. the primary link in your case -

As for MED, you advertise the same subnet(s) out of both links but you add a weighting so that the backup link is preferred for your IPT subnet(s). If the link goes down then because the primary link is also advertising out the subnet traffic just comes in on the primary link. MED can be applied per IP address/subnet so it will only affect the IPT traffic.

Hope that's enough for you to be going on with. I'll check back later today.

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